Brian Switek

Wired Science Blogger

Brian Switek is a freelance science writer and a paleontology volunteer with the Natural History Museum of Utah. He is also author of the books My Beloved Brontosaurus and Written in Stone.

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Repost - Q: How do you sex a Smilodon? A: Very carefully

Feb 14, 2011 3:52 PM

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Terror Birds Ain't What They Used to Be - A Titanis Take-Down

Feb 12, 2011 5:05 PM

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Lucy's Feet Were Arched and Stiff, Just Like Ours

Feb 10, 2011 3:00 PM

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The Dodo is Dead, Long Live the Dodo!

Feb 10, 2011 12:26 PM

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Tracks and Traces 02.06.11

Feb 6, 2011 12:07 PM

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Extra Armor Gave Glyptodon an Edge

Feb 2, 2011 2:03 PM

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Bears and Bamboo: The fossil record of giant pandas

Jan 31, 2011 9:31 PM

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Tracks and Traces 01.29.11

Jan 29, 2011 5:00 PM

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Tully's Mystery Monster

Jan 27, 2011 8:00 PM

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Ancient Tools May Mark Earlier Path Out of Africa

Jan 27, 2011 2:00 PM

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Jumbo Shrimps: Why Mega-Mammals Still Looked Puny Next to the Biggest Dinosaurs

Jan 26, 2011 9:14 PM

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Toumai and the Sabercats

Jan 20, 2011 8:32 PM

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Scientists Clash in 'Dinosaur Wars'

Jan 17, 2011 4:30 PM

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Repost: Hurdia - Another cool Cambrian critter

Jan 12, 2011 8:15 AM

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What Killed the Hominins of AL 333?

Jan 10, 2011 6:02 PM

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OpenLab Finalist: Giraffes - Necks for food, or necks for sex?

Jan 7, 2011 7:36 PM

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Written in Stone gets featured in Nature

Jan 6, 2011 7:55 AM

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The Fightin' Ibis: Xenicibis and Evolution's Arrow

Jan 5, 2011 8:01 PM

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Legend of the Killer Storks

Jan 4, 2011 2:17 PM

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A Fistful of Teeth - Do the Qesem Cave Fossils Really Change Our Understanding of Human Evolution?

Dec 28, 2010 9:18 PM